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Do you know that writing for the web requires a different writing style? People read from the computer differently than they do physical pages.

I recently visited a friend’s website. She has great information to share. However, her site has a big problem that will cause her readers to click away without reading her information.

Her great information is presented in blocks of dense text. To the reader, it looks like too much work to dig out the information. She would do better by making a few simple changes.

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I’ve learned senior health care and terminology because of my in-law’s medical problems. But, I’ve also seen some things that help me to create good characters in my writing.

The term “control freak” was created for my father-in-law. He needs to be in charge of every situation. Since my mother-in-law’s stroke, he can’t control anything.

He’s 93 and his short-term memory is bad. We’ve stepped in and are making decisions he feels he should make. We are keeping him informed and involved. However, we visit care facilities, talk to her doctor, talk to his doctor, and general manage everyday decisions as well as major medical decisions.

If I wanted to rip his heart out, I couldn’t pick a better way than to take decision making out of his hands. His memory problem makes the situation worse, since he can’t remember that we’ve discussed the issue with him before.

Good storytelling means that you need to make things as difficult as possible for your characters. Find your character’s wounds and weak spots. Then hit them where it hurts the most.

How can you use your observations to create good characters?

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